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An edition of Unless (2002)

Unless

1st ed.

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  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
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  • 25 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

Reta Winters, 44 years of age, has started a new sort of life. She has discoverd the meaning of loss for the first time.

For all of her days, Reta has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime'. This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope.

Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Shields's remarkably supple prose. Unless, a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proves her mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life.

--front flap

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Fourth Estate
Language
English
Pages
213

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Subjects
literary fiction, goodness, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner, Literature, Psychological fiction, Teenage girls, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Women authors, Mentally ill, Domestic fiction, friends, women, American literature, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Ontario, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Large type books, Literary, Abridged Audio - Fiction/General, Fiction, general
People
Reta Winters, Norah Winters, Arthur Springer, Danielle Westerman
Places
Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Bloor Street, Honest Ed's, Nathan Phillips Square, Orangetown

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Unless: A Novel
2009, Harper Perennial
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2003, ISIS Large Print
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2003, Fourth Estate
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2003, Calmann-Lévy, CALMANN-LEVY
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2003, Uitgeverij de Geus
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London

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USA

Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2002

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PR9199.3.S514 U55 2002, PR9199.3.S514U55
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/2002019923

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
213 p. ;
Number of pages
213

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3558700M
Internet Archive
unless0000shie
ISBN 10
0007141076
ISBN 13
9780007141074
LCCN
2002019923
OCLC/WorldCat
48884303
amazon.co.uk_asin
0007141076
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0007141076
Library Thing
439
Goodreads
57444555

Work Description

Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck.

Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.

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It happens that I am going through a period of great unhappiness and loss just now.
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